A website based on 'Bugs 4'

English 4ºPrimaria web site offers suplementary activities and access to related resources for teachers using Bugs course books.

BritLit

BETEA (Basque English Teachers' Association) has organised a small event to introduce in the Basque Country the British Council's BritLit project. The event will take place on May 24th in Donostiako Berritzegunea.
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Recipes

PBS Kids website includes a section of activities and resources based on Mama Mirabelle's stories. Among them you can find handouts to make up a small book of easy recipes: My Savanna Cookbook

Videos watched or commented in our last meeting

Pocoyo: Bedtime

Pocoyo: Don't Touch!


Gomaspuminglis


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Online stories and nursery rhymes

Fridgefun4kids website includes a list of links to Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes.

Do2Learn: Online games

Do2Learn website includes different activities for young children. These are several examples:
- Word Pairs
- Feelings Game
- What's Different?
- Synonyms and Antonyms

Published materials related to CLIL

MacMillan Education publishers have recently released these titles related to CLIL:
Methodology: 'Uncovering CLIL'
'Subject-specific' vocabulary: 'Science Vocabulary Practice' (with or without CD ROM and key). Further information: Onestopclil

Several links to miscellaneous resources

These are several links to access different online resources for the classroom:
- An 'egg hunt' story related to Easter.

- A video on Youtube with the song 'Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?

- Further resources on the same song.

- Some of stories collected at Anglès 365 site.
- More stories.

- A website about animals, including colouring sheets...

Acknowledgement: I knew about them through the 'Angles 365' distribution list for primary teachers of English.

SIOP

This is a slide presentation on the teaching model named SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)

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Online interactive course

You can access online activities around basic topics from this link: Linguasnet. Apart from English lessons, you can find the same activities in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. Especial focus is placed on oral skills.

Games and puzzles

These are some references of games and puzzles in English:
- Twister.
- Uno.
- Guess Who?
- Junior Scrabble.
- Junior Pictionary.
- Snakes and Ladders and Ludo.
- Pirate Snakes and Ladders and Ludo.
- Goosegame.
- Classic card games for kids.
- Happy Families.
- Top Trumps: Wonders of the World, Space, Egypt, Simpsons...

Downloading videos from Youtube

There are different options to save the Youtube videos that we might find interesting for their use in the classroom. These are two examples:
1
Using an online converter program, e.g. http://www.videoconvertx.com/.

Steps:
1. Search for a video of your interest and copy the URL address.
2. Paste the URL address into the corresponding window on Video Convert X.
3. This website requests an email address. Once the video has been converted into an AVI file, for instance, they send you the address from where the file can be retreived to that email address.
4. Click on it with the right button of your mouse and select 'guardar destino'.

2
Using Real Player.

Steps:
1. You can download the program from here and instal it into your computer.
2. Once the program is installed, enter Youtube and search for a video of your choice.
3. You should see a flap on the upper part of the video screen saying 'Download this video'.
4. Follow the instructions and save an .flv file in your computer.
5. Use a file converter online, such as Media-Convert, in case you need a different kind of video, e.g. avi, mpg...